I'm a few episodes in this new season so far and I just want to say I find that writer guy who slobs all over Claire to be extremely boring and annoying. What is the purpose of his character? He seems to have no purpose and such a pointless character. Every time he comes on, I get a little annoyed haha. Anyways, no spoiler... just wanted to share that. Maybe he becomes a more important character later, but ever since he joined the show, I've wondered about the purpose of his existence.
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House of Cards S5 |OT| Whats said in the family, stays in the family - Netflix 5/30
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If the next season was just Claire walking up and down a hallway I'd still watch it.
Claire. 😍😍😍
StrategyFan
Member
this season was stupid
it's like there's nobody in charge of making sure the show follows some coherent plot
they just took a bunch of talking points from the 2016 news cycle and slapped them onto house of cards characters
it's like there's nobody in charge of making sure the show follows some coherent plot
they just took a bunch of talking points from the 2016 news cycle and slapped them onto house of cards characters
Either this is just a country-specific promo or it looks like Canada might play a bigger role next time?
https://www.facebook.com/netflixcanada/videos/1579985065345887/
https://www.facebook.com/netflixcanada/videos/1579985065345887/
brianjones
Member
why is Yates still on this show
what an awful character
shame cuz I liked that guy in boardwalk
what an awful character
shame cuz I liked that guy in boardwalk
My least favorite season, this series should have ended a while ago and this season proved it. Same old ass formula where Francis does shady shit, Doug covers it up, just when you think he's going to get caught, he somehow avoids it, then Doug takes the fall for him anyways. Same old shit, and this season didn't even have some type of major story arch halfway through, so it just felt like the story line dragged on and on and on.
Spoiled Milk
Banned
They touch on that in that episode and later ones. She's president but he still barks orders and it confuses people.
It was a two parter.
First part was get elected, second part was survive the scandals.
Spoiled Milk
Banned
First husband.
But he is like in every meeting. She didnt have that clearance when she was first lady?
I thought this season was pretty bad. It's been on a decline since the beginning with last season finally showing a little bit of life, but it's all gone now.
Total season spoiler:
Awful.
Total season spoiler:
I'll just push the Secretary of State down a flight of stairs right after she gets immunity to testify against me. I know I'm safe to do this because even the fucking writers of the show seem to forget about it right after it happens.
Awful.
MontyBrown
Banned
Awful, dull season. The stakes were higher than ever on paper, but everything felt so flat, mundane, boring.
Put a bullet in it.
Put a bullet in it.
Loved it. Season 1 is still unparalleled, but this was maybe just a notch below season 4 to me, which was a return to form after a kind of weak season 3 (which was still good TV). Mark Usher and Jane Davis were excellent additions to the cast of characters, especially the latter. Such a great quiet energy. There's really nothing out there like this show for me and I look forward to the next season, which I can only assume will be the last.
The Artisan
Member
so for those of you who finished it: who thinks frank was bluffing when he said
he will kill claire?
I agree with you, however it depends on one thing: did Frank threaten
Romero before or after going to that weird cult thing in L.A? because he tells Claire he came up with it while he was there. If he threatened Romero beforehand, then I agree, his manhandling arrogant attitude was catching up with him. If it is afterwards, then even though it was annoying to watch (kinda wish Romero had more of a backbone...they kinda wrote his character to look like a bitch), it was part of Frank's plan, whatever happened,
however Romero reacts
however Romero reacts
Being president and having Claire as vice president definitely was
Frank's plan, as evidenced by his conversation with her in the S5 finale. Honestly,
there is not a position more powerful than being president, so this season when he was telling Claire about his plan to get into the private sector, I was like, eh. compared to the pres/vice pres idea presented in last season's finale
Frank's plan, as evidenced by his conversation with her in the S5 finale. Honestly,
there is not a position more powerful than being president, so this season when he was telling Claire about his plan to get into the private sector, I was like, eh. compared to the pres/vice pres idea presented in last season's finale
since you sound knowledgable on this, lemme ask you: how exactly do Netflix OGs make money? is it just dependent on how often their shows are streamed? there aren't ads or anything so where is revenue generated?
The Artisan
Member
hehe, yo man why is your avatar just a white box?
Username1198
Member
Decent season. Still has the best opening theme for any song.
Milly Osworth
Member
Eh the whole season was just scheming to stay president round and round and the ending was almost comical. Oh well.
I think if he absolutely had to (to stay in some sort of position of power) he would. I can't remember what episode it was, I think the finale or penultimate, but he told us he wanted power more than anything else in the world. Even Claire. We already seen throughout the entire series, he more or less uses her for his own gain. He always wanted to be the one to call the shots, and now that Claire is (and he isn't getting pardoned now), he is going to be out for blood. I would assume he'll go after her with all the dirt, but might end up killing her for his own gain.
The Artisan
Member
yeah, he did say
"maybe" he loves power more than he loves claire, but as this is a fictional show trying to make itself look real (as ridiculous as several of the scenarios of the show has already been) as evil the motherfucker he is i don't think he has it in him to kill her and if he does, for someone like him i don't even see how the ends will justify the means, and not only that
This show has become such a messy web of nonsense that I'm struggling to care anymore. I mean the Underwoods are terrible people who are barely more than cartoon evil but at least their scheming was somewhat focused and interesting. With this season it felt like they were just spinning their wheels, not in the intended way with the Underwoods scrambling to stay in power but it just felt meaningless because there was nothing to fill the gap of the lack of meticulous politcking. Last season had Francis and Claire going at it and this season had that simmering under the surface but that wasn't meaty enough for it to carry it for me. I liked the idea behind Usher and Davis more than the actual characters (though I do like how they were both uniquely sinister) but due to the nature of their characters as cloaked puppeteers, it wasn't enough.
It was still better than the bizarre attempt to humanize Francis in season 3 but I just don't know how they plan on keeping this going. The finale would have been interesting if it wasn't soured by how this season played out.
Yea Yates has always felt masturbatory self insert. Never liked the character.
It was still better than the bizarre attempt to humanize Francis in season 3 but I just don't know how they plan on keeping this going. The finale would have been interesting if it wasn't soured by how this season played out.
Yea Yates has always felt masturbatory self insert. Never liked the character.
Okay, that was pretty silly. lol
For one, it wasn't even that high up, so why did it knock her out? Assuming it knocked her out, why isn't he worried about her waking up and telling everyone that he pushed her? Kinda feels like they wrote themselves in the corner and this was the fastest way to remove from her the equation for forever.
Escape Goat
Member
I hate the news bits where they use real world pundits. I'm sure it was intended to make it seem more real, but it has the opposite effect on me. Plus these people are so stiff in their delivery.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
lol ep 12. What the fuck... the writers were tired of writing this season
Permanently A
Junior Member
Just started watching, its good they amped up the crazy. Underwood's shenanigan's at the house would be totally unbelievable before Trump, now I'm like "huh yeah Trump would do that"
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
I think he's the one that can still save Claire. Francis is gone after what he did in the past but Claire can still save herself. However she is too much like Francis. I'm sure she will kill somebody as well (the beheading scene showed she is just as rotten as him) and the series will end with both of them on the electrical chair.
gutter_trash
Banned
I am unsettled by these two parachuted characters that have lots of sway, WTF did they come from? pooffff very important characters LOL from where?
Shadowhelper
Banned
It's certainly not as tight as it used to be, and some of the dynamic have been repeated quite a lot, like how he just keeps having Doug Stamper take the fall. But there is a lot of great stuff in this season.
And it still has the main reason to watch this show Kevin Spacey. He is so enjoyable to watch in this show. And the cartoony over the top aspect, is exactly why I love this show. There are tons of cool little characters. I am also a sucker for DC political thrillers, so I guess I was an easy mark.
And it still has the main reason to watch this show Kevin Spacey. He is so enjoyable to watch in this show. And the cartoony over the top aspect, is exactly why I love this show. There are tons of cool little characters. I am also a sucker for DC political thrillers, so I guess I was an easy mark.
One thing I defintely don't like is, it appears Frank Underwood is going to be sidelined next season, and Clair Underwood is going to have a far larger role. But, narratively, this might be a good choice, you can't sideline Kevin Spacey. The show will suffer. Clair Underwood is a strong character but the actor is nowhere near as enjoyable to watch as a scenery chewing Kevin Spacey.
ScottSullivan
Member
It's like a couple of people said earlier in the thread, thank god trump isn't this smart or we'd really be fucked
Fried Food
Banned
I'm surprised so many people are liking this season. I'm finding it super boring 5 or 6 episdoes in. Im just tired of the underwoods, their characters, I just want to see them get their comeuppances. You end the 4th season like you do, and this is what we get next? failed
APZonerunner
Member
Just finished. The end of Season 4 really felt like it was pushing towards the same ending as the original UK version of the show, but now I really don't know where the hell it's going.
Enjoyable, but it's definitely lost its way a bit - I think, to be honest, the further it has drifted from the vague outline of the original show (which I know most won't have watched) the more it's struggled. I still enjoyed it plenty and am in for next year, though. I hope next year is the last.
Enjoyable, but it's definitely lost its way a bit - I think, to be honest, the further it has drifted from the vague outline of the original show (which I know most won't have watched) the more it's struggled. I still enjoyed it plenty and am in for next year, though. I hope next year is the last.
Yeah, for someone whose (whole series)
fucking the First Lady, Vice President or PotUS
31GhostsIV
Banned
Finished this morning. Thoughts in no particular order:
Glad they brought back frequent fourth wall breaking. I missed Spacey talking to the camera regularly in 3&4.
So... we spent 75% of the season with Frank
So apparently if you're in power and people around you suddenly
nobody thinks it's strange.
What cologne does Tom wear?
Speaking of which, thank god Tom
Oh yeah! Two highly important influential characters... who haven't been mentioned once in the past four years of the show because reasons.
Glad they brought back frequent fourth wall breaking. I missed Spacey talking to the camera regularly in 3&4.
So... we spent 75% of the season with Frank
pulling all kinds of shit to win an election, just so he could tip off the paper, drag both Zoe Barnes and Rachel back into the spotlight and then just resign the presidency so he can give it to his wife he openly discusses no longer trusting just an episode before?
start taking tumbles down stairways or getting killed in road accidents
What cologne does Tom wear?
I would love to attain instant mostly-clothed sex with every attractive woman I make a lame comment to.
is dead.
Oh yeah! Two highly important influential characters... who haven't been mentioned once in the past four years of the show because reasons.
SpartanN92
Banned
Love seasons 1-4... definitely down on this season though. Seriously it was so bad.
The big "Reveal"
felt so wrong.
After everything they have done he throws it all away
The big "Reveal"
that Francis was the mastermind behind what may be the dumbest scheme ever
After everything they have done he throws it all away
for some vague idea of power beyond the presidency.
Escape Goat
Member
Just finished the last episode. I skipped a bunch of stuff in the episodes running up to the finale. Everything felt like I'd seen it all before. Was I supposed to be interested in Hammerschidts story? The audience already knows everything but we have to follow along as he slowky, painstakingly catches up with us.
Everyone was so damn boring. Doug really didn't go anywhere as a character. Tom was annoying as hell. Ms. Davis was a constantly shifting entity so she really had no character.
This was a waste of a once great show. They played it safe sow they could crank out a few more seasons and it showed.
Everyone was so damn boring. Doug really didn't go anywhere as a character. Tom was annoying as hell. Ms. Davis was a constantly shifting entity so she really had no character.
This was a waste of a once great show. They played it safe sow they could crank out a few more seasons and it showed.
31GhostsIV
Banned
Because lol Frank's a fourth dimensional chessmaster.
The Artisan
Member
what I want to know at this point is why is doug so fuckin loyal to Frank...like, did Frank threaten his brother's family several years back or something? or is it worse and doug would put his own godforsaken family on the line for Frank...
his loyalty is so unbelievable. season 6 premier should be a flashback episode
JackBauer24
Member
Didn't enjoy this season at all. Seemed like one looooooong episode where nothing happened.
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